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Framing the Sacred: The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico

Framing the Sacred: The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico

Wake, Eleanor

Paperback

Religion General General ArchitectureGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 0806153962
ISBN13: 9780806153964
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Jan 21 2016
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.75 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Christian churches erected in Mexico during the early colonial era represented the triumph of European conquest and religious domination. Or did they? Building on recent research that questions the cultural conquest of Mesoamerica, Eleanor Wake shows that colonial Mexican churches also reflected the beliefs of the indigenous communities that built them. European authorities failed to recognize that the meaning of the edifices they so admired was being challenged: pre-Columbian iconography integrated into Christian imagery, altars oriented toward indigenous sacred landmarks, and carefully recycled masonry. In Framing the Sacred, Wake examines how the art and architecture of Mexico's religious structures reveals the indigenous people's own decisions regarding the conversion program and their accommodation of the Christian message.

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